Anyone in Dallas know what's happening on 75?

[theivoryqueen]

All traffic was routed off the highway for a lot of exits - forceably detoured, I drove across the Northwest highway bridge just in time to see what seemed like every cop in Dallas driving really slowly down the northbound lane. Can't find any news on the tube, nor on web sites for local news.

[Newsjock]

1. Nope, but police action confirmed

From http://cbs11tv.com/traffic

11:54 PM 12/22/05 Information
US 75 (CENTRAL EXPWY) Both ways at NORTHWEST HWY
Police directing traffic: FREEWAY SHUTDOWN

[theivoryqueen]

3. Thanks!

Will try link now

[global1]

2. Probably A Police Escort For Tom DeLay Driving Home Drunk...

from a fund raiser or golf course.

[shance]

5. LOL!**

Good one globie.

:)

[Newsjock]

4. KRLD only says "police activity"

in their 1:05 a.m. traffic report. But if it were something significant, it might have been in the actual local news just before the traffic, and it wasn't.

[soothsayer]

6. Have you tried looking at the traffic cams? I saw one police car

go by on this one

http://www.highfivecam.com/index_cam_1.htm

[soothsayer]

7. police chase resulting in standoff w/hostage involved (WFAA tv)

Hwy-75 Central Exwy, Northbound
is closed in both directions between Lovers Ln/Southwestern and Northwest Hwy due to police chase resulting in standoff, suspect holding a hostage. - service road northbound from Lovers Ln to Northwest Hwy also closed. DETOUR: northbound traffic must exit at Mockingbird. southbound traffic must exit at Park Lane. ALTERNATE: Greenville Ave.

http://partners.traffic.com/awo/prd/WFAA-TV/wfaa_dallas.html

[The Judged]

8. self deleted.

[rainbow4321]

9. Police standoff closes Central overnight

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/122305dnlocchas.66c385b.html

A police chase that began with a truck's unlit rear license plate ended with a standoff between a man and police that closed one of the busiest expressways in Dallas for about six hours early Friday.

Dallas police Lt. Rick Watson said the episode began about 40 miles to the southeast near Kaufman, where a Kaufman County sheriff's deputy tried to stop the truck for having the unlit license tag.

Instead, the truck sped up. The chase continued, even after the truck blew a tire on a police spike strip near downtown Dallas. About four miles farther north, the truck stopped, and the male driver threatened to shoot officers, Watson said.

At one point, police negotiators feared that the man might be with a child, but they concluded after further negotiations that the man was alone, Watson said.